Cobalt Blues [Jared]

[Logan Hewitte]

Cobalt was starting to be a bit of worry. Especially after that morning with that girl and the ice. It was something Logan hadn't really thought much about. Cobalt was a pretty advanced piece of technology but with the artificial intelligence and all the information it had access to, the truck was starting to get a little harder to predict.

It was designed to learn but telling some girl he needed more data and wanted to run tests on her was definitely not okay! Putting the blue truck on the desk in an empty classroom, Logan turned it on, only to hear the soft humming of its systems buzzing back to life.

"There was an unauthorized shut down," it informed him in a slightly robotic voice. "Yeah sorry buddy, but you were kinda freaking out that girl," Logan told it as he rested his arms on the table and rested head on it as he stared at the truck. "My actions were within set perimeters," the truck informed him. "Yeah let's work on those perimeters. No more experiments on people, okay?," he said. The truck beeped at him as though agreeing to his terms.

"Good," Logan said with a smile as he sat back up and leaned back in his chair, arms crossed over his chest as he stared at the truck that began rolling forward then back then sideways, stopping at the edge of the desk each time. "You wanna go explore, don't you?" Logan asked. "Yes," came the robotic voice. Logan just stared at it with a grin before picking it up and putting it on the floor.

[Jared Park]

To say that Jared’s day had been grueling would be an understatement. Of his seven classes for the day, it was only in his training session with Dr. Awren did he not have an essay to write or an exam to answer. Then again, the good doctor did decide that it’s high time to push his training a bit more, which, while not as mentally taxing as the 500-word essay he had to write in English about Orwell’s 1984, has made him incredibly dizzy and hungry. (Gosh he hates his powers’ side effects).

After grabbing a quick snack in the cafeteria – half dozen donuts and a cup of hot chocolate (much like Tim Horton’s, but not quite) – he went straight to his dorm room, carefully climbing the stairs so as not to stumble and fall (his legs are still quite weak from his training). For five or so minutes, he just laid down on his bed, sprawled awkwardly while his eyes were looking straight up the ceiling. If he had heat vision, he would most likely have burned a hole in it already.

He would stayed like that until Robbie or Phoebe bugs him (which, considering the boys’ personalities, is extremely likely) had he not remembered that he was supposed to send his brother a text to ask him about their plans for May (as their dad just told them he’s coming home for a month at least). He promptly rolled over his bed and opened his bag, running his hand through its inside as he tried to feel his phone. His sleepy eyes opened wider as he apparently couldn’t feel his phone. Even after he turned his bag upside down, it still wasn’t there. Oh no, he thought, nervously scratching his head.

Quickly changing into suitable clothes, Jared decided to retrace his steps, bolting from his dorm and into the classrooms, where he last remembered using it. “Hi,” he said, panting like crazy and holding tightly by the doorway just to prop himself up, “Did you see a phone lying around here somewhere?” Oh please, please, please say yes.

[Logan Hewitte]

Logan watched as the truck moved around the room, no doubt mapping it and trying to reconcile the new data with his current location and the blueprints he had of the school. Cobalt was a pretty curious little device but that was kind of what Logan was going for when he put it together.

Sitting back, he closed his eyes for a moment, letting his mind wander for a second, taking in all the devices that were relatively close to him. Finding one, Logan grinned before going quite still for a moment as he explored it. That was the downside to his ability. When he got into a device, he just seemed to go really still and quiet and unaware of his own environment until something pulls him back or when he's done with whatever he's doing (which thankfully doesn't take long at all). He was pretty vulnerable during that time with no real defenses but so far he hadn't managed to find a way around it yet.

About less than a minute later, the door open and Logan snapped out of his little trance and turned around. "Hey," he said with a smile which turned into a grin when the guy asked about a phone. "See one? No," he told him. "But if your name's Jared it's over there," he said, pointing to his right.

A moment later Cobalt drove right into the student. "Error," the truck called out before driving into the guy again, causing Logan to stand up and look thoroughly confused at the sight. "Unknown Abstraction, Please Assist," it said. "Cobalt, stop trying make roadkill, the guy's standing right there," Logan said, getting a little annoyed at the unexplainable actions of his little creation. "Sensors do not detect another human in this room," the truck told him before trying to go straight through the guy again. Logan moved forward and picked it up.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" he asked, tapping the lense of the camera that enabled to the little truck to essentially see. Logan even waved his hand over the sensors before sitting back against one of the desks. "Sorry 'bout that.. He's usually pretty good with this stuff but his sensors must be malfunctioning or something," he told the guy before looking at his truck in confusion.

[Jared Park]

It took a little while for the boy’s answer to register into Jared’s mind, possibly because of the oxygen deprivation it’s experiencing at the moment. Though dancing on occasion has given him some sort of enhanced endurance, he was never really a runner, so him running up and down more than two flights of stairs while dodging the myriad of people across the courtyard (some even practicing their flashy and rather dangerous powers) at the same time has his respiratory and circulatory systems running on edge.

He gave the boy a questioning look (How did he? I don’t have my name outside my phone right?) but still walked over to his right and looked under the desk. And ‘lo and behold, it was right there, beside his earphones and strawberry eraser, both of which he did not realize he’d lost too. He must’ve taken them out while writing that damned essay of his. He promptly grabbed his misplaced items and quickly put them in his pocket. “Thanks,” he muttered with a grin.

Normally he’d go away silently already (as it seems like he’s disturbed the boy and his truck earlier), but his curiosity was just bugging him. “How’d you know it was here?” but more importantly, “How did you know it was for a guy named Jared?” Did he look at my messages? But why did he leave it there still? ‘Cause if it was him (seeing a lost phone and seeing a message for a Jared), he would’ve taken it and tried to look for the kid, not just leave it there. Then again, not everyone is like him.

He was just about to walk to the door (it wouldn’t be deemed rude if they talk even if he’s acting like he’s about to go away already, right?) when he felt something bump near his feet. “Cobalt?” tilting his head as he crouched down to look at the toy truck more closely, “You modified it? Cool.” A rather obvious question, given the various wires one normally wouldn’t associate with a remote control car, but then one can’t be too safe, can he? And besides, he hasn’t watched TV lately; they may have sold a new one lately. “Is he like a spy truck or something?”

At the mention of sensors, Jared perked up a bit. “Oh it’s not him, it’s me,” he said, suppressing a giggle. “Sensors and me don’t really get along well. Just ask the automatic doors at the mall.”

[Logan Hewitte]

"No problem," Logan said grinned back. He was just glad to be useful. "Cause I sensed it," he told the guy, turning back around. "If it electronic, I'll know what it is and where it is, as long as I'm in the room," he told him with a grin. He could do a lot more than that but he wouldn't really go into the details right now.

"I was looking for its owner," he told her guy. He couldn't really say he went through his messages cause technically he didn't. "I didn't really read your messages or anything, just kinda let it bring up keywords and your name came up. Computers are pretty smart that way I guess," he said, though mostly it was him telling it how to do that and letting it bring up a name which he could then assume was the owner's name.. Pretty basic stuff really.

"Actually he's more an er.. an alive truck than a spy truck," Logan told him. "He's got artificial intelligence and he's about as smart as a 10 year old.. Real curious too," he told him, not mentioning the fact that Cobalt had just that morning asked a girl if he could run tests on her. Logan wasn't even sure what the truck would have done considering it didn't have arms or anything. He definitely wasn't going to give it any either, the truck was just less dangerous this way.

Logan raised an eyebrow when the Jared guy said it was him... It was him? Maybe it was some kind of ability where he was basically invisible or something.. No that couldn't be right cause Logan could see him. "Really?" Logan asked with a grin. Okay so automatic doors would suck but that was still kinda cool. "Dude you could be the best spy ever, breaking into places and stuff," he said with a grin, thinking more along the lines of museum break in's in movies. It would be cool at least.

Sure it was probably a bad thing but then with Logan he basically do what they thought Y2K was going to do. He could erase all the world's data and everything would just go crazy. So yeah, he had that kind of potential but the guy just wasn't going to go crazy or anything.

"Hang on, I gotta try something real quick," he said, putting the truck down then going really still for a second. His eyes seemed to glaze over like he was a statue as he let his mind run through cobalt's circuits finding the camera, the sensors and having a look around. At that point, the track rolled back a bit and then stopped and Logan snapped back into reality.

"Dude, Cobalt can't see you at all," he said with a grin, that was cool. He knew where the guy was but those sensors really showed nothing at all and that was amazing and new and Logan wanted to know more if he could.

"Okay Cobalt, you go do your thing buddy," he said to the truck, watching it beep then roll off in another direction. "So, pretty much anything mechanical or technological can't see you?" he asked again, it sounded pretty board but still very interesting.

[Jared Park]

Jared felt guilt suddenly sweeping through him when the boy said that he had nothing to worry about his privacy. Had he been that transparent with his thoughts? Or could this guy simply be a telepath or something similar (which, while normally a cool thing for him, is currently rather unsettling)? “It’s no biggie,” he smiled, trying to hide the growing sense of confusion, and to an extent, guilt, inside him. “I didn’t think you checked it anyway,” a blatant lie, one he hopes the boy will buy so as to pacify his unnerving guilt about his unspoken accusation, “And if you did, I doubt you’d find anything exciting really. I’m pretty much a boring person.”

“An alive truck?” He blinked twice just to ensure that he wasn’t asleep. Artificial intelligence? People can make those nowadays? Then it hit him. First him easily finding his mobile phone and now having such an advanced piece of tech. “Are you a technopath? Or are you just some mechanically inclined dude with an amazing sense of where everything is?” He sat down on the floor, and gently gave the truck a few pats, as if petting it. “This is amazing.” Now we can officially start fanboy-mode.

He let out a shy chuckle when the boy told him about being a spy. How many times has he heard that really? And sure, he’s thought about using his power for that purpose – probably the only real use his powers have – but then again, he doesn’t have the necessary accessory skills needed to accomplish such impossible feats. He doesn’t know how to do wall scaling (parkour?) and he’s not ‘sneaky’ enough (every attempt he did at sneaking out has always been foiled by his big brother back in the days). If only he could also turn invisible to the naked eye, then he would consider it. But for now, “I’m a bit too clumsy for it. Unless of course, you can give me special gadgets for my missions.” He laughed, thoroughly amused at the thought.

“Pretty much the best thing I can do at the moment,” he nodded shyly, “Though I’d do anything to be able to become visible again. I miss videochatting with my parents.” He briefly followed Cobalt with his eyes before turning back to the boy. “So Cobalt, you built him? Or did you just use your mumbo-jumbo powers to make him…magical?”

“Which reminds me, I haven’t caught your name yet. You are?” He asked, extending his hand out for a handshake.

[Logan Hewitte]

It was a valid concern and Logan was completely with it. The thing is, people should get weird about it if he's anywhere near an internet connection cause Logan could look into just about anything. Passwords didn't really mean anything when you could just skip right past it and encryptions were hardly a problem when you can make it decrypt itself.

He was a real danger to privacy alright but Logan knew better. He wouldn't do that to anyone. Like they say, with great power comes great responsibility and Logan takes that pretty seriously.

Logan just shrugged. It didn't matter if he thought he did or didn't. Most people tended to worry about that stuff around him anyway so Logan was used to it. "Yeah, you get more interesting stuff in a government database anyway," he told him. Checking phone messages weren't exactly on his list of things to do when they guy could instead go all x-files and find out the truth about Area 51 or make some kind of robot that beats just about anything they've got on the market right now.

"A bit of both I guess," Logan said with a grin. "Finding things and getting into it's all part of the technopath experience but the knowledge and actually putting things together, I kinda had to learn," he told him. His gift let him go into things but physically putting it together came from an interest which perhaps might have been intensified by his ability but Logan hadn't really looked too deeply at it.

"I can definite do gadgets," Logan told him with a grin. "I just need a couple more ideas on what I wanna do next," he told the guy. He already had bits and pieces in his room and usually he would put it all together in something, usually a toy because they were incredibly easy to get but Logan liked making little gadgets, they were fun to play with.

"So you can't just.. Make yourself visible?" he asked. Well that kinda sucked. Having powers you couldn't switch on and off kinda limits the things you can and can't do. Logan kinda laughed.

"Physically, I built him, I used my power to test his programming and make sure everything was working just fine," Logan explained. "I still had to have an understand of programming languages and stuff to get him running but yeah, I guess it was just both," he told him. There were definitely limits to the sorts of things he could do. He couldn't magically turn a toaster into a walking, talking robot because it just didn't have the parts for it so he did have to spend weeks sometimes just building it and putting it together. He needed the right circuits and the right connections because he would even think about going in and doing anything cool with it.

"Logan," he told him, shaking the guy's hand. "Or LJ but really my brother's about the only one who calls me that," he explained. "If you can't tell, I'm a total dork and I guess that was his way of making me sound cooler... It never really stuck though," he said, thinking about it for a second before shrugging it off.

[Jared Park]

Had he been given a more potent power – one that could, say, allow him to generate a black hole all of a sudden, engulfing the Earth and ending life as we know it – Jared would’ve cared about the infamous SpiderMan tenet. While it is true that he does admire a few notable villains (Poison Ivy, Dr. Light and Lex Luthor, to be exact), given his rather timid and frail personality, he’s much more suitable to be a lanky sidekick who gets the hero in trouble than anything really. Give him a powerful ability and he might be able to upgrade himself to comic-relief/novelty villain, but nothing more.

“You’ve been inside a government database? That’s just awesome.” Beyond awesome really, but he doesn’t want to spook Logan just yet. Thank goodness he’s managed to control his inner fanboy instincts. “Being a technopath is so badass.” At this day and age at least; transport them to the middle ages and they’d probably be as useless as fish on land. As people are increasingly reliant on technology, Jared could just imagine how crucial such metas will be in the near future. It’s sad that while his powers are technology-related, he couldn’t do anything with them other than stay within their sight. A sigh of regret unconsciously left the boy’s lips at that thought.

While Jared is rather curious about how electronics work (opening up a few unwanted appliances in the process), he’s never really tried building stuff himself. Jasper tried to teach him the theory behind circuitry (resistors and ohms and switches and Kirchhoff) as well as some rudimentary programming language (Java and C++), but he’s never really picked them up. He claims his brain is just darn too dense for him to get all of those stuff in one go (or in a year, that is). “I can totally give you ideas! If you’d let me, that is.” He doesn’t usually indulge people when they tell him he can be a super secret spy, but this is the first time someone has told him that he’s working on something rather concrete about it. “Do you have grappling hooks and night vision goggles and tiny laser pens already?”

“I wish. I couldn’t even make another item disappear with me too. It’s just me and my immediate vicinity, i.e. my clothes. My bag at times too, but I’ve experienced being stopped in the middle of the mall because the security team saw a couple of shopping bags floating in midair from their cameras.” Boy was that embarrassing. I’m the lamest a meta can get you know, he wanted to add, but he’s promised Robbie he’ll stop dragging himself down already.

“You have to understand programming languages to be able to break them down? That sucks!” To Jared, any power that needs an extra umph in knowledge of how the world works just to tap into its full potential is a bit on the off side of things. “Can’t you just ‘talk’ to machines. There’s one technopath in Hammel like that. I think.”

He gave out a hearty chuckle at the mention of the boy being a dork. “Hey, don’t be such a downer. I’m a dork too, but since I dork out to things unreal, I’m a whole lot dorkier.” Dork wars for the win. “And I’ll call you LJ, because you are that cool. So, you’ve been here long?”

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[Logan Hewitte]

"Yeah, I just wanted to see if I could do it and it was surprisingly easy. I was probably like 14 at the time so it wasn't even that interesting at the time," he explained. Being a kid, he really had no use for anything he found in there but it was good to know he could do it again if he wanted to.

"Nah," he said with a grin. It wasn't all that great or anything, or maybe Logan was just being modest as he shoved his hands back into his pockets. He had fun with it but it was a lot work too and people didn't tend to see that part. They only saw the finished product and just assume that it was that easy to put it all together.

"Yours is cool too ya know," Logan said, seeing the guy look a bit down about something. He figured that was it. His powers made him invisible and while that would suck, it had its benefits too. A lot of it was criminal but then Logan was sure he could come up with better alternatives if he had the time to think about it.

"Yeah, course. That'd be great," Logan said with a grin. He was always up for a challenge and if Jared wanted they would work on a bunch of projects or something and the guy could test them out or something. Either way, Logan could see it being a lot of fun since Jared seemed just as interested in it as he did.

"Nah, that stuff's easy enough to buy, I like doing something a little different.. I've got a universal translator the size of a deck of cards," he told the guy, thinking about what else he had. "I've got a pen that takes pictures. It's got wifi so you can upload it straight to facebook and stuff. Got a watch that makes phone calls," he told him. "Nothing all that cool but if I get a few more ideas I'll work on it," he explained.

Logan just grinned at the shopping bags story. "That would have been so funny," he told him. It certainly sounded like a pretty cool story and it wasn't like he could get in trouble for it or anything.

"Nah cause I learn them all so quick anyway. All that stuff just makes perfect sense to me and most of the time I figure it out by myself anyway," he explained.

"Yeah, I can talk to them. I don't need to learn it, I could just go in something and program it without knowing the languages but it's just easier if I do. Gives me a better understanding of what I'm doing," he told him. He could do it without that but if it was easy anyway then why not?

Logan just laughed. "Least I'm not the only one," he told him with a grin. He thought about it. "Hang on," he said, going still again for just a second, getting into Cobalt to use his super fast brain for a second. "2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and roughly 7 hours," he told the guy with a grin. Computer's were useful and it made you look cool when you could do crazy stuff like big math problems. He could probably do it all if he had a computer handy cause it just speeds it up so much. When Logan got in a computer, it was like his mind speeds up too.

[Jared Park]

Jared’s eyes widened in awe as Logan recalled how he easily broke into what were supposedly heavily guarded government files. “Did they even notice you there? And what did you see? Does Area51 really exist?” Ok, so the last question may have been added just to jest the boy, but Jared really was curious about the stuff he saw back then. And he still can’t wrap his mind around the thought that the government hasn’t employed techopaths to protect itself from, well, people like Logan (not that the boy’s some sort of criminal or anything anyway).

“Pfft. Stop trying to make me feel better,” the Asian boy chuckled, finding the whole sympathy because of the lame state of his powers rather dull and repetitive already. It’s has nothing to do with Logan though; it’s just that he’s rather tired of people saying that his powers are cool when, well, his powers doesn’t even have the slightest edge against theirs. “I already know my powers are sucky. No sense trying to pretend that a square is a circle when we all know that, well it’s a square. Thanks though.” A rather defeatist stance, one that Jared doesn’t really take in most aspects of his life.

That didn’t stop him from throwing more gadget ideas to Logan though. Because even if his powers are lame, gadgets are definitely not. “Woah. I may be thinking too small then,” he nodded as he heard of the things Logan has created, “Would Totally Spies gadgets work? They’re a bit girly though, so yeah.” And yes, he just admitted to watching what most would deem as a ‘girly’ show. Hopefully Logan won’t judge.

Seems technopathy’s a lot more complicated than he thought. Then again, media portrayed technopaths as computer savvies already, all powerful with codes and stuff even if you take their powers away. Makes you wonder what would happen to a technopath if he doesn’t have a clue on how programming works. That would be quite the sight to watch. “So how does it work?” he asked, “Like, do you see numbers and stuff when you talk to them, or is it like telepathy and you just think about it and bamdambam, voila?”

“Dude, that’s dope!” It was a bit creepy if he wasn’t aware of what Logan could do, but since he is, it was all shades of awesome for him. “I’ve been here for roughly 8 months.” It’s been that long already? He never really put much thought to how long he’s been in Hammel before now. And it is a bit surprising how long he’s been in the said institution really. “Do you have any tips to surviving this school for little old me then, considering that you’re such an old hermit already?” he teased.

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I am sorry it is a bit crappy. I don't know what's up with my muse lately. D;
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[Logan Hewitte]

"They wouldn't notice unless I changed something. I'm not some program, if I go in there they won't see me, they'll see what I do," he explained, hoping it would make sense enough for Jared to kind of understand how that works.

"Yeah it exists and they've made real space ships too. They're round and it takes 3 pilots to fly it but it moves like a flying saucer. It was pretty cool. That's what some of the sightings were," he told him. It was pretty regular stuff to him since he had seen it all.

"I'm sure there are way more useless powers out there," he told him but he didn't want to go into it too much if Jared didn't want to talk about it. If the guy just wanted to forget it then that was fine with Logan too.

"Totally what? What's that a tv show or something?" Logan asked. It wasn't one that he had seen before but if they had gadgets in it then he figured it couldn't be too bad.

Logan just shrugged when the guy asked him what it was like. "It's kinda hard to explain," he said thinking about it and trying to describe it in a way that made sense. "It's like pathways and you can different directions and it's like you gotta know what street you're on and i kinda know it but sometimes I'm not sure what i'd find there," he said. "the internet's like that but waay more complicated, it's got like stringy webs all interconnected, it's kind of a mess to look at sometimes. does that even make sense?" he asked.

"Tips.. Not really," Logan admitted. "Just hang out and make friends I guess?" he said, that was about the best he could offer for now.

[Jared Park]

Jared might know very little on how programming works, but he’s definitely no pushover. As crude as Logan’s explanation might sound, he did get what he was going into. Somehow at least. “That’s dope,” he said, smug grin on his face, “You’re like…a cyber-ninja or something. The ultimate spy!” Move over 007, the new generation of secret agents are here. “Do they also sense it if you copy their files? I mean, you’re not tampering with it or anything right?” If they couldn’t, then woah, that would be cool beans. If he didn’t know any better, he’d say Logan might be one of the lead contributors to WikiLeaks or whatever that site is called.

He wasn’t really all serious when he asked about Area51, so when the technopath gave him a seemingly no-nonsense answer, his jaw almost dropped. “Wait…so it really exists? You aren’t pulling my leg are you?” He blinked a couple of times, rubbed his eyes and even gave himself a little pinch just to make sure he’s not dreaming. “So there really are creatures from outer space?” Should I be scared?

“Totally Spies. Yes, it’s a TV show,” Jared nodded as he tried to explain the show, “It was pretty good at first. But then as the seasons got longer and longer, the villains became lamer and lamer. But the gadgets were good. Though since the spies were girls, their gadgets were girl-oriented. Like lip balm lasers and drill-laden high heels.” And heaven knows that Jared wouldn’t use such gadgets. Or would he?

“It’s a good thing I’m not a technopath then,” the boy simply laughed, sitting on top of one of the desks as his feet are feeling a bit tired from all the standing already, “I mean, I easily get lost despite having a map with me when I explore from time to time; I could just imagine how hopeless I’d get when I dive into cyberspace.” He could just imagine how taxing and dangerous their training is. “Seems you’ve already mastered your powers. Why are you in Hammel still anyway?” he teased.

Upon hearing his advice, he promptly sent the boy a mock glare and said, “How sagely.” He quickly followed his seemingly sarcastic statement by sticking his tongue out, to clarify that he was simply joking. “So LJ, since when did Cobalt came to be? Did you built him at the same time your powers manifested?” If he did, oh gosh, then the boy must be some kind of prodigy or something. Crazily awesome really.

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[Logan Hewitte]

Logan just grinned back, it was always nice when someone actually thought his interests were cool or interesting and Jared definitely seemed to have an interest in it and that was more than enough of a reason for Logan to stick around and keep talking to the guy.

“Nah, just a total geek who can get inside pretty much any device and surf the net for free,” he said with a shrug. He couldn't really pull off the whole spy thing. He didn't have all the other cool qualities like fighting skills and that whole cat burglar routine with the ropes from the ceiling.

“I could make changes and they would have no idea where it came from. It's not like my brain has a MAC address or anything,” he explained. It wasn't like he was using a network card and getting online the normal way and when he did something it was him and not the computer he happened to enter from.

“Copying stuff's a little more complex,” he explained, getting ready to go into the whole complicated mess of it. “If I've got a hardrive to transfer it to then it's cool cause then I'm like a download manager getting it all done but recently I've kinda figured out how much stuff you can store in your own brain,” he told the guys, and this was where it got interesting.

“Turns out I can store stuff in my brain for a couple of hours till I can find an empty hard drive to dump it all into but it's all like binary and just craziness so if I couldn't even use it if I wanted to which sucks,” he explained. He could download an encyclopaedia into his brain but Logan was still learning how to use his abilities so even with that in there he wouldn't be able to turn the pages and actually read the stuff or know the information otherwise he'd be more of a genius than he already was just soaking up knowledge. He was working on it though, Logan was hoping he could figure it out and do it cause that would just make things so much easier.

“The other problem is I have to get rid of it in a couple hours or I just go completely crazy,” he told Jared looking kinda serious for a second. “And even when it's just sitting in there it can kinda mess me up like this one time I was doing an essay and last page was all 1s and 0s,” he explained with a grin at the memory. It was annoying having to translate it all and write it out but he could see the humour in it at least.

Logan just shrugged at the Area 51 thing. He didn't think it was as cool but then his interests were elsewhere. “It's not like they have an alien in storage or anything,” he said, not that he knew of at least but then Logan didn't exactly do an extensive search for one or anything. He just got in and thought it was cool so he had a bit of a look then left it alone.

“I didn't see anything alien-specific but I wasn't exactly looking,” [/b[he told him. “They got some things even they don't know the answers to which I guess could indicate that something else was messing with it.. Like that probe or whatever that they sent and it took a picture of the big disk shaped thing and then they lost contact,” he explained. “The truth is I dunno and I don't really wanna speculate,” he told him. He could go looking but it was hard to know for sure.

“That sounds cool. I could do guy gadgets if you want,” he said, it was easy enough to manage. If he got the hardware going then the software to get it working was gonna be the easy part.

“Cyberspace is fun though,” Logan said. It truly was and sure there were a few less than legal stuff that went on but most people downloaded movies and stuff so it wasn't that wrong if everyone did it, right? Or not? Logan could do a whole lot more like get into people's bank accounts and move a bunch of money around or better yet add a few zeros to existing numbers and the banks wouldn't even know until it was too late but he didn't but he had that whole conscience thing going. The stuff he did to was always just limited to the little things that didn't really hurt anyone much.

“I haven't really mastered it. There's lots I can't get right and then there's the whole thing where I'm completely defenceless when I'm in something. I mean, you could right up to me and I would even know you were there until it's too late so.. I guess that's one of the things I'm working on. Though I'm not sure that I'm ever gonna be able to do it,” he told Jared. He had that and the whole storing data in his brain thing to work on so Logan definitely had reasons to be at Hammel where working on that would be safe.

Logan just grinned, he knew the advice he gave was kind of ridiculous or at least so obvious that it shouldn't even count. “The best thing to do is often the most obvious,” he said, trying to back up his lame advice giving skills but it came sounding pretty prophetic for something that didn't really say much. He knew Jared was probably just kidding but Logan had never been the best advice giver. It was just something he wasn't good at, like teaching. He couldn't teach or give directions if it was too complicated. Explanations were beyond his reach to but at least Logan had other skills and talents.

“Cobalt's kinda complicated. Some of him's old, some's new then truck's like 3 weeks old so he hasn't been moving around for long,” he explained but the systems and he A.I. And everything else he had been working on for a while and just kind of adding to it over time.

[Jared Park]

“Pfft. That’s cool enough on its on you know,” the boy reassured Logan, his smile beaming brightly as ever, “And besides, it’s not like you have to be able to do physics-defying tricks to be a secret agent. You can just sit on your desk and send databases into frenzies and bam, mission accomplished.” Suddenly the image of Logan sitting on a dark room, in front of three or more screens flashing green numbers on a black screen came into mind. Totally awesome. “You think you can hack into my Neopets account give me a few extra zeroes in my bank account?” he teased. Cheating? Not really (in his eyes at least), considering how people with enhanced physical capabilities excel because, well, their powers allow them too.

His head unconsciously titled slightly at Logan’s explanation. “MAC address? Is that like an IP address or something?” It’s certainly the first time he’s heard of it. “Wow I feel so dumb around you,” he chuckled, thoroughly amused about how much knowledge is required for Logan to use his powers to the fullest, and the fact that the boy does know almost everything there is to know about computers and networks.

His eyes widened in disbelief when Logan told his memory-storage story. That was, without a doubt, the coolest story he’s heard his entire life. “You can actually transform data into impulses in your brain and store them at least for a while? That’s awesome!” Never mind the fact that he can’t use such information as it’s in binary; the mere fact that he can act as some sort of temporary flash drive make Logan a top notch technopath in his eyes. And to think the boy’s still honing his powers. “I think you’d be a very powerful technopath. I just know it.”

And boy do the stories keep on getting better and better.

“Government conspiracies are awesome. Mostly because we know they are true anyway,” he stated with such conviction. Like meta-humans, for example. He could remember how his grandparents used to tell him how meta-humans were shrugged off alongside bigfoot and the chupacabra, treated as part of the fringes of the scientific world. “I knew intelligent life could be found somewhere out there. The universe is just too big for it not to evolve really.”

Jared promptly clasped his hands together in delight when Logan said he’ll make guy gadgets for him. “You would LJ? That’s cool!” he laughed, “I want a laser pointer laser. And antigravity boots. And jetpacks of course.” Because being a secret agent won’t be complete without using a bona fide jetpack.

“I know it’s fun” -or at least he feels like it would be fun- “but I think the sheer number of information you’ll have to weave through is just intimidating. Have you ever been lost in there before?” How do they come out of it anyway? Do they just cut themselves off from the digital world and bam, there back in the real world? “That has got to suck,” he nodded when Logan told him about his unwanted side effects. Totally understandable though, as his mind travels elsewhere whenever he does his power tricks. “Just like Negative Man. Don’t worry then, I’ll protect your body whenever that happens.” Like his lanky frame can protect Logan’s body from anything anyway.

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Sorry if it's short. D;
- Jam

[Logan Hewitte]

“Pretty sure those tricks are part of the job description. I could be like the weird guy in the lab coat that makes the cool gadgets but there's no way I'd ever be the spy guy,” he said. He had actually done some serious thinking on the matter. Logan could do the sciencey guy routine or the evil genius role if he really tried but his options were about as limited as everyone else's,. He didn't mind that though, he saw no problems with it at all.

“By that definitely I could do all those from my room or from anywhere,” he said. Sitting in his room in a pair of boxers, playing video games then stopping for a couple minutes to 'send databases into frenzies' and mission accomplished! It sounded pretty easy and thus not as cool as they do on tv.

“Neopets? That thing's still around?,” Logan said. “Yeah, fake virtual money's the easier thing to do,” he said and it didn't reeally cost anything either. “Give me your user name and I'll get that done,” he told the guy. He didn't even need his password or anything. It was like having an administrator account on every system connected to the internet. It was a hell of a lot of power but luckily Logan didn't exactly have bad intentions.

“It's probably best to keep adding small amounts cause if you throw a whole bunch of zeros, it gets flagged sometimes, depending on how the site works,” he explained. It was entirely doable as long as it wasn't the highest amount of net currency on the whole site. That tends to raise a bit of suspicion.

“Well yeah. MAC addresses are specific to each device and IP address are for when you access the internet but that's not exactly static. You can change your IP address and you can have a bunch of computers on the same one too. Everyone's still on IPV4 but we need to get on the IPV6 bandwagon like now or we're gonna have some serious problems,” he said before turning back to Jared and realizing what he had done. “Sorry, you probably have no idea what's I'm talking about.. I do that sometimes,” he said. He went on of tangents all the time. Technobabble as practically an entire language that Logan spoke and not many would understand but he was used to those sorts of reactions.

“Yeah but it's not good. I can't do it right and it wasn't wasn't the safest thing to try. I mean, I could literally lose my mind but yeah it kinda works,” he explained. “My mind goes into circuitry and electric signals all the time so I figured why not try it the other way. The brain's basically a big electric circuit,” he told him. With the memristor, a computer was so much closer to being like a brain so it was all connecting up quite nicely and if there was anything Logan liked it was connections. It was just great when the world made sense.

“That'd be cool. I'm still working on it. I've been working on it for so many years but there's so much I wanna do,” he said, it was cool the things he could do now and Logan should be happy with it but he liked to challenge himself and he would never stop.

“There's arguments for and against aliens so I don't really have an opinion either way,” he explained. He would believe it when he saw it and until then there was always going to be a little bit of doubt either way.

“Anti-grav,” Logan mused, thinking about it for a second. “I dunno if I can pull that off but I'll look into it and jetpacks are definitely doable,” he said. Anti-grav, they didn't have that kind of technology but if anyone could find it or figure it would, Logan probably could. Jetpack was be easy though. “Spaceships!,” he said suddenly. “That would probably work on boots. I'm gonna need to get in those government files again but I think I can maybe do boots like that.. Means you can hover but you won't be able to walk on walls or anything,” he expalined. That was definitely something to look into.

“Nah I can't really get lost. I might get overwhelmed I guess but then I just let go and I'm back to being me again,” he explained. It wasn't like his mind could get trapped forever, it didn't work like that but if it got complicated enough it might take him a second to figure out where he did. Logan just grinned when Jared said he'd protect him. “It's cool. That's why I was gonna make robot Ninjas but that didn't work out too well. I'll think of something though,” he told him, and he always did in the end. It was just a matter of time before a solution was found.